Patients/community members discuss pain and race/racism. (2023)
Yeah, they do because they think that I’m going to put it like this. They think because we of color we can tolerate pain more than Caucasian people can. And that’s a lie. I don’t know where they get that study from. That’s a lie. We all bleed the same color blood. I don’t care what color you are. We all, yeah, some people have pain worser than others. I stay in pain 24 hours because I have lupus I hurt from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, and right now I’m having a flare up. You can tell because my face. So I have to deal with pain every single day. They would not give me no pain medications. They won’t give me none. Only thing they’ll give me me is Tylenol or Motrin. That’s it. Nothing.